The Sun. — London, England, 1808-03-29 00:00:00

F ,kihjea of the Right ItonourableGentleMan was to assist the measure, he did tot-t hink' that his propo sitions were calculated to be serviceable to it. With regard to the one for notifying any, grant in the Ga zette-, if that grant were made during the prorogation of Parliament, or just before its rising, several months must elapse before it could be made the sub je€t of discussion. With respea to his other prop°• si;ion, to declare that all grants, within a limited pc, riod, should be liable to be diminished or annulled by Parliament, he conceived that it must be product tire of much injury, as it would give the claimants an additional plea for importunity. He hoped the Bill would be agreed to as unanimously as before. He was curious to know more precisely what were the sentiments of. his Majesty's Ministers towards it. If he , might judge by that 'House they were fa vourable—if from the other House, they were unfa-, vourable to the measure. Mr. BIDDULPII was of opinion, that the clauses proposed by the Right Honourable Gentle man would render the Bill a nullity. Smile mea sure to relieve the distresses of the people was in, • dispensible. If his Majesty's Ministers had an op portunity of witnessing the misery occasioned by the Property Tax in the country—if they could hear the piteous claims made on the humanity of the Commissioners by cottagers, and the widows of cottagers, with their fatherless children, they would be convinced of this faa. We were told that the loan for the present year on/y would be 12 millions.. To pay the interest of this loan, permanent taxes to the amount of 500,0001. per annum must be imposed on the people. Would it be a trivial bene fit if the Committee of Finance were to discover a mode of retrenchment to that amount . ? In one department alone, that of the Bank, an annual saving had been made of 215,0001. which, in his opinion, ought to have been 400,0001. The prin ciple of economy appeared to 'him to be one which could never be shaken. The war seemed to be in terminable; our' resources of taxation were very lituited.—What remained for us but the most minute examination into the public expenditure, and the most resolute determination to retrench wherever retrenchment was practicable. Mr. HAWKINS, BROWNE agreed with the Rout:nimble Gentleman who had just sat, down, as to the distresses felt by the people from the ne cessary taxation, but was happy to bear testimony to the patience which the taxes were submitted to, from the conviaion that they; were necessary. He thought. it desirable that this measure should•be so concluded, that even the language of .ladion could not state, that .there Was a disposition any where to oppose, reform, and he should be extreme ly sorry, that the, amendmerrs `to • be proposed by its Right Hon. Friend, should be such as to defeat the obis& of the Bill. BUt if they should appear, when proposed, to be of a nature to promote the agreement of the two Houses, they, should meet with his cordial .coeurrence. Sir ROBERT SALISBURY said a few words upon the measure, which we could not cone & even in. substance. Lord PORCHEST.ER, though he thought it de sirable to proinote the agreement of the two Houses of Parliament, yet denied that for that purpose such clauses should be agreed to as would do away sub stantially the whole °bled of the Bill, which went to prohibit altogether the grant of places in reversion. He could not agree to the amendments proposed by the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), because they would amount to a. rejeetion of the measme. It even the be rejeded again in the other House, public business would not suffer by the delay, and that House would not be precluded from sending it up again, so that the discussion, which would be the consequence, might in the end lead to an agree ment between both Houses. As to the observation which had been made, that I 14) abuses had been stat ed in the exercise of the prerogative, he should only remind the Hbuse that the late Chancellot of the Exchequer for Ireland had stated to the House, that certain offices in Ireland, which it was deemed de sirable to abolish, could not be abolished in conse quence of their having been improvidently granted In reversion. f BANKES should not detain the , House at .present, as the discussion which he foresaw, with re gret was to take place upon the"measure would give him an opportunity of stating what be bad to say upon the subjed. He felt thankful to his Right Hon. Friend for the candour towards him and the House with which he.had explained the nature of the amendments ,which he meant to propose in the Bill. .He was afraid, however he might desire it, that he could not agree to these amendments, which whilst they nominally retained the principle; would atWally give it up. But though „the Bill might, In the shape in which he m ean t to bring it forward, meet ,with th e fate of the lat e Bill,that House must recolle6t, that it, would,still have the means in its own bands of eutorcing this salutary check upenthe public expenditure. Leave was then given to , bring in th e Bill. • LirrTEßtEs. _ _ _ Mr. SCROOP .11E11..CiliD, pursuant to notice, , moved, " That Cominittee be appointed to in..; 'quire' how far the evils attending .Lotteries have been remedied by the Jaws passed respediUg the same, and to report their observations thereon to the Hoase, together with such further 'measures as may necessary for remedying the same." The Honoirahle Gentleman :prefaced his motion by several 01);.ervation , , which, from the low tone in which' they were delivered, we feel it impossible to . detail. The general purport of them was, to show the loss sustained by the public from ithe present mode oY contracting for Lotteries, and the artifices used to seduce the lower ctasses the people toad venture in the Same, to the great injury and itneciver i sh rnent of theirfamilies. He quoted a passage from a Statute, which `stated Lotteries to be public nui sances, and agreed that the evil bad of late risen to such 'a height as to call for the interference of the. Legislature. The Confra4tors, however, were not so much to blame, as by purchasing the Lotteries :it a rite so much higher than the real value or the Tickets, they were constrained to use the means, they resorted to fir the purpose of bringing e them selves home again. without injury ; and if, (rum the., report of the Committee which he proposed should be anointed, it should be thought deiirable that the present mode of carrying on Lotteries should be dnoonfinued, he was of opinion that such person s as had . 'embarked property ill such. speculations should bti saved luirtnlega. Re therefore moved, &c; &c. and the question being put, The C 111,41 NCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER etm did -pot mto oppose the M otion, though, at the same time, . he, was not prepared to say, that if it. was the obea,of the Hon. Gentleman to abolish tho preset 4 system of Lotteries, by which the pUhlie ganwl i to: ) .thc.t,amount of five or six hundred thou sand pq94 / annually, lie should consent to any such proposition. There had been many remedies pro vided by statute lot the evils arising from Lotteries, and as he could not say that others might not also be devised, .he should agree to the motion of the Hon. Gentleman for a Committee to inquire. As to. the statute which had been quoted by the Hon. Gentleman, he had only to observe, that it had been passed for aboliShing unlicensed Lotteries, and did . not at all apply to those Lotteries which were every year saationed by an Act of the Legislature, and the evils; of twhich even had been aggravated; of late years,o44ltepraOlice of granting Private Lotteries .by.Actof.Paerliainent, much to the prejudice of the Public Lotteries, It the object of the Hon. Gen.' .tleman.;wait to reduce the price of tickets to the ac tual value, as. that would interfere with the source of public profits upon Lotteries, he could not agree to his proposal, though he should be disposed to assent to any proposition which would be calculated to dimi nish the evils arising from Insurance, which had always been the source of the greatest mischief. With these views he should agree to the Hon. Gentleman's motion. The Committee was then appointed. The Indialment Bill, the Irish East India Trade Bill, the Irish Duties Bill, were read a second time, and ordered to be committed, the first - to-morrow, the second on Wednesday, and the last on Thurs. day. The Irish Warehousing Bill, and the Land-Tax Commissioners' Name Bill, were read a second tune, and ordered to be committed, the former to-mor row, the latter on the ed of May next. The' Committee on the Orders of Council Indem nity Bill was put off till to-morrow.—Adjourned. MAI LS. s-3 Dublin, 3 Waterford. tf L r ‘- • TRICE OF STOCKS Inns 11.! Y AT TWALVS O'CLOCL• 11011101 S • • • • .... • • " . THE SUN. IMAM QV& DRUB IALIUM AUDIIAT ? L ONII 0 1V , a it ;,.• • !.--,TUESDAY, 14ARcH 2 9) 1808 a '7 - ^' A Gentleinan' who' is recently arrived in town from SiiaUt:states, that preparations are making for sending out to Soath.America a force of 86,000 men, of which a considerable portion, it is said, will be French troops. We, hoWever, give very little credit to this rumour, because, with our present naval supe riority, it is almost an impossibility that such a force could be sent from any Port in Spain without falling into our hands. If an embarkation to that extent be in contemplation, it is, we have very little doubt, for the purpose of making some attempt nearer home. Tou Fleet destined for the Baltic, under the Command of Sir JAMES SAUMAR . 22, will sail as soon es the wind permits. Admirals .Sir S. Hoop and KEATS will have commands under him. The force that will be employed open, this service will be Much. larger than can be required for defensive pur i, ! poses; we are therefore inclined to think that some operation of importance is in contemplation. A rumour was circulated yesterday evening ► upon the authority, as it was. stated, of a private Letter from Holland, that an Insurrection had taken place at Stodkhohn, which had been attended with seri onspemquenco. It is hardly necessary to state, Ofig o ttis,report is unfounded. Intelligence has been received from Stockholm ofas late a date as the 2 I st, at which time every thing was perfetily tranquil, Captain BROWN,' of the Ship Favourite, is just arrived at. Grangemouth from Gottenburgh. He states, that he sailed on Sunday the 90th inst, with about a$ Sail, under convoy of His Masty's Ship Kite; that all the British Ships of War, having been cut gut of the ice, proceeded for the Sound on Sae turday the toth, and were seen beating up with a foul wind when the Fleet sailed. Abdut fiooo troops arrived at Gottenburgh to provide against any attack which might be made from the side of Norway ; and that it was reported at Gottenburgh, that the Swedes were driving the Russians back out of Finland. - Mr. CANNING, in a recent debate upon the ex hausted subjea of the Copenhagen Expedition, and its consequent influence, on Russia, mentioned an anecdote that ought to be more generally circulated. In answer to the alWipps to indireal ehthruunics. 1 lions 'from Russia; Air. CANNING observed, that Minister 4 414. rely. Upon accredited' Agents, and that business could nut go on unless they d i d so rt;ferred to what was done by the great . 1,4 / l itfetc of Prussia, who, while he was nego tiall g :ttith an accredited Minister froth ,this Coon.. try,' mos told that another person had arrived front . Great Britain, for the purpose, according to the. old phraie, of seeing how the land fay. The wary Monaich readily admitte4 the , latter tp a conference; and, not doubting that he would transmit all that passed home, deluded . this su pernumerary h Ambassador with; false information, which that Ambassador, of course, conveyed in his dispatches, congratulating himself, no doubt, • npnu - his greit• address, sagacity, and the vast War. iWtMan which he had obtained. ,We leave our Wader.; to coujecitare whether Mr. CANNING, by this story, bad any reference to a singular colloquy which parted at a Northern Ceurt, in•which, how-. -ever, theie Certainly was no such Monarch as the Great litEinisitaL of Prussia. • NAVAL NEWS MAkti 2d.--;Ariived Majesty's Ships Thelid and Member from a truize ; tlt~ Essex' &YU. from Liverpool for the Brazih ; BAa, from Newfoundland for Poole; and the Ply. »math, BOTTIISEY, from Cork for Plymouth: DEAL, MARCH la.—Arrived I 1 Majesty's Ship Tribune from Plymouth. PORTSMOUtH, MARCH f3B. ~ Arrived this day the Valiant, GRANT (Transport), for Gibraltar; -Sperm., BROWN, Mary, CELLER, nULINETTI Friendship, 'WARNER, and Dove, BADCOCX, from the Downs. ' Sailed the Medusa Frigate, Capt. BM/I/RUM, and Boadicea Frigate, Capt. NIAITLANn, on a cruise off Havre ; and Orates Sloop of War, Capt. LAPE.NO• VERE, for Plymouth. The Yolontaire Frigate takes convoy to the Me diterranean, the Melpomene to the \Vest Indies, and the Bold, Gun-brig to the Downs. DISTRIBUTION 01. PRIZE.MONEY. To the Sloop Port Nlalion, for the capture of the Berbice (in company with the Acosta); at No. 2.2, Artindel.street, for three years. To the (ion-brig Bruizer, for the recapture of the Camilla, of Shields, on board, on her arrival in port, and every Wed. nesday and Thursday, for three years, al No. 9, New Broad. street. To the Captors entitled to share in the property captured from the French in Egypt, Igor, on the Seth inst. on the 31st„ and every Wednesday and Thursday atter, for three years, at No. g, New Broad.street. To the Hired Cutter Princess Augusta, for the captures of the Neptimus, the ()flyer waght, and Vruw lohanna;,.and the Kitty, on board the Cutter, on her arrival in port, and for three months atter, at No. 2, larttes.street, Adelphi. The Oipry Schooner, of to guns, Lieutenant arT,.has captured in the West Intlies, the Spanish Privateer La Vengeance, atter a desperate resistance ; the Spaniard had eleven killed and seven wounded ; the Gipsy none. The whole of the town of Black River in•Jamalea, except only Nix or seven houses, has ,been destroyedby fire. The loss is estimated at' 150,0001. to 200,0001. a very small part only of which was insured. 'A boat with twenty-one men on board got into Dover on Sunday from Fhishing, from Whenee,t hey Made their escape on Saturday ; the forts tired at them as they put to sea, but without doing them any injury. They state that there a►e eight Sail .of the Line nearly ready for sea, and that two Frigates. latelysailed from Fleshing. Perhaps these were the Frigates that were seen on Thursday nif Flartlbtli Head. . . THE THEATRE: , ....The Tragedy of Othello was represented last night at Covent .Garden Theatre, be fore a ntimerous audience. MURRAY apol(SiZed , for the indisposition Of Pots, wtw, however, went through the chataaer of the unfortunate Moor wi'h considerable success. COOKE resumed the part of Lago s in which he displayed that ettedwe force which in general characterizes his acting.- Cassio had an able representative in CH.%IILES KEMBLE, who was particularly successful in the Bacehantilion Scene; Miss SMITH performed Deatlemona with a powerful expression throughout, and was much ap plauded. The part of Emilia was rendered more than usually prominent by w. Sr. LEGER Offen as this Tragedy is represented, it excited a strong interest. Them are, however, many offen sive passages, whiCh ought to be sacrificed to the improved manners of the times, The liberal Manager of Covent Garden Theatre has renewed articles with BLANCHARD, whose en gagement expired this season, for five years, upon an augmented salary. BLANCHARD is a very re 7. speaable atior, and has the additional merit of al waystheing alert on his post. CATALANI.--The following is given in a Pamphlet recently published as a general estimate of what this Performer received in the course of last•year in the British Dominions. It should be observed, thather salary at theOpera , House this year is 5060 guineas. Salary at the King's Theatre . . - ,Ca, too . 800 Her claim of an additional said. . 1- lit Benoit (besides presents) . - . . '1,200 ad Ditto (besides presents) . - * JAoo Argyle -street Concerts - . . 810 Benefit Concert, at about - . - • Moo Scippo's Concerts . . lath Concert - • . . Soo Dublin Concert ' ... . - a,soo Cork, Edinburgh, Liverpool, York; Oxford, Man. t: h ela er , dud Liiriningbana,,at about . . 6,0a0 i G7ga, The Loki) Climicat.t.ott might well cengratulate himself on being released front the trouble of in-.' vestigating the complicated affairs of the Opera House, and we sincerely believe that the people in general, with conwaranycly a very few exceptions, i would be glad to hear that' the Country itsell were released from such an establishment. How ever, if it should be under the condua of those AlstinguiShed Persons who have lately interfered, it, may be rendered' an • amusement for the higher circles, and those who are fond of any merit btit what their own Country can produce. The conduct of the Frenzh in Portugal is atrocious' 'beyond description. to the 'Proclarriations issued, by the French Ruler, relative to that unhappy Cain. % try, its termer Goverument alone was condemned, and the people were assured that the French came, to relieie and to 'noted them; ypt the most severe contribdtions have been levied . upon them, their feelings , and religious faith have been violated by . the confiscation of the Church 'property,. their eccle siastical establishments 'have been destroyed, their military Ofliceta have been shot for nothing but a rigid sense of honour, and they are obliged to suer every Species, of misery that could berintliCied upon them, even if they had given that etfence to inc which the latter wholly imputed to the expatriated Governthent when lier predatory hordes entered the unfortunate country. The ill-success of Mr. SHARPE'S recent Parlis;• roentary ettlirt will, probably, induce that Gentle« man to return quietly to his mercantile pursuits,' as more suitabk to his hahits'and the limitted range of hip powers. Yesterday %Val married S. ROIIERTSON, Esq. of London, to Alisi MILLER, dmw.hter of AV ILL! &SI M " LEl ts Elq.'of the Roi•al NivV, Porton. a a I~IIILIi~Y PAPERS. xovszr big tiai;ngsatitvr:ves; Ern. lb. Mr; CHM:Matti offered the following Rotolution; *ha was agreed to it:solved, That a Committee be appointed to take into consideration the expedi ency of raising by enlistmelit and tirgraniiiiig a number of Volunteer Troops for the service of the United States, not exceeding 24,000 men, anti that they have leave to report by UHI or otherWi.ic. On the motion oft‘lr. VAN J$ e, the Coinri'littkui rose, retorted proAress, and obtained leave t o *sit again---Yeas 4 7 , Nays 46; when Mr. VA DIE,s immediately olicsod the following Itesolution i ' Resolved, That the kresident of United Stat,lit be re. quested to communicate to this Ho* such !nt-..rmnien, touching our horse) telatiiiiia. as he May deem consistent with the public interest, the better to enable th641 , ,u1c no judge how for the military es taolishatent of the United btate3 ,ought to be encreabee. On the Motion d Mr. Gault/1001m; the Housti adjourned.—Yea4:o3. Nays 62: . NEW-YORK, FES. t4 --Mir. NOVltsr, and Lieut. LEWIS, are the two Couriers appointed by Govern: went to carry dispatches to France and En Lind ; they were to set out flonl WaSbiti&tori ()II Saturday; and are hourly expected. The °fag() will sail im mediately on their arrival. _ _ Extratt of a Letter to the Editor of the United States Gazette, dated Washington, Friday evening; Feb. 19.—" The Negotiation with Mr. Hose is suspended for a few days ; is was erroneously re ported last evening to be entirely broken off. It is understood that M. R. has made some propw;itiup, to which our Government has telbsed to accede. A Cabinet. Connell, to which Mr. GlLr.s was ?nailed; was held . on Wednesday, and then it was probable this determination was made. MI% MADISON COO* tinuet unwell. The Preside at has been to-day at Mr. M.'s house, for the purpose, as it is suppoted, of concerting and preparing'a proposition for Mr. ROSE. Such is the statement which is generally credited." Two Couriers, our for France] the other tor Env land, leave the city this evening. They are both to . embark at New York in the same vessel. Mr. WILLIAM PINCKNEY Way this day nominated by the Senate Minister Kenipotentiary to the Court of London. , He was originally appointed a Nlinister jointly whit* *. MuNaos, and it appears that since WM. left tintion, Mt. PINCKNEY has possessed no authority to a 4 as a. Minister. There it a paragraph now running thro'igh the Papers, stating that Mt. Easatrit was last week at. Baltimore, and that both he and Mr. ItoSe %%'ere !meted in this city to-day. The report is totally rontous Mr. E. has not been in lilitimore, nor is there, any_,rea#oll suppose that Mr. Rosa about to leave Washingteln. It is reported' to the Solithward, that a V e sfel hag arrived at HatiiptOn.lloadi with ItISMIC= tiops for Mr. Rosin. It appear* that the whole Of the money paid into .• the Registry of dm High Court of Admiralty from the year 170 to March 18Lk8 amounts to, As Droitt of the Admiralty • - ‘474.3 2 ; IL to da Utoits of the Crown. • - 3,0,404 to 2 A tri.,cd Aceount of both, out of which no thing has been paid to Captors - toct i oci tg slaking the suit► total o'ol the money ISAct AITIOUIIII. . • 3,113,905 c Z Sum tot of all the money drawn► by the Keys! wdtratit and othetwise 2,539.K ) 7 19 7f And the balance now reinidnink is, as • above stated, sornetliing inwe halt a million. vit. 57.1061' a 64. The Danish prizes are not inchided in this roturn. CLERGY.---Dr. SWABEY and Dr. ADAMS, Ath4o• cafes of the Ciort at Arches, hAre given their de• tided opinioni upon . an important question respe;A.: ing a Curate's Licence Taal every ' Lip nee grunted to a who terminates on the death of the incumbent cuMbent gave the nomination ; that the suc ceeding Be for may• nominate any other Clergyman to the Cure, ;Init , tlaim a freh Licence from the. Bishop of the Dioces." On Tuesday last the Earl of Darlington'S fox.: hounds had ono of the most brilliant runs of the season, from that celebrated covert Sessay Wood,. Yorkshire. Theypresently unkenneleo a lox, which seemed determined to chew, that the justly-faineit breed of Hambleton Foxes is' nut extinct : Cur first skirting along the banks of the Swale, about two mites, he then had the courage to ¶ace the wind t 0 ,7 •wards the hills, passing bySowerby, Bagly, through Thirklebytrarik, ,Thirkieby Spring, Osgodby, and ''where, notWithmanding many earths • were open, he scorned so meats a retreat, and turned `to the right, across Kilbarii Oomaimi - to Byland Abbey, Newborough Park, and Yeardly ; and then 'pointed towards Black Wood; but the scent growing 'very cold, he was lost about three miles from En's- invold, - after a run of two hours and ten mintste a with only cue short check. The country passed over was supposed to be at keast u 5 One of the hest contested matches for four miles was run yesterday on Hounslow Common, between Mr. Hsartitt's bay mace Diamond, , and Captain . HROGIts'S brown charger, for 5Q guineas, that ever was witnessed, The mare made play at starting on foil peed t , and was follnwed aosely by the eharger for Ole first mile, when each jockey began to pulti, and the animals were neck and neck the whole dis tance, without_ either gaining in pace. The mate wan therece by jockey ship, bat so nicely, that opi- , ' nions were divided, until the empire decided. The dittantse was perfOrnied in nine minutes and a half. On Tuesday morning, the uith hist, as the Rev. *OUIS PALmEtt, Curate Of Hilliti , cloii , Middlesex, and late of iitadiligton, :111tiar 0410td, was riding in company withisveral Mends upon Ilittitidge CA** motif, •, his Aspria ran away, arid threw bun with breat violence against a stone, an t i I t eaured his ead So'llloo as 10 cause his immediate death. . &AIN G.-•-+Ttlild tly nest is looked for with con siderable avidity is* day fbr mUe diversion atllonfpt the amateurs, of pugilism: besicks the match be. tween Youth Belcher and Docilely, tui b u :41 Olt a 5, which leis been for some thne fixed to take place on that day, Cropley stul Dutch Sam will also exhibit for a stinilar,larn. Yesterday niorning, while twb ,servauts belong» ing to Mr: ;WALL, gardener iuirnth)h.tields, were dt hit.% ftt ehdtfuriausiy along the Walt, they unfortunateir ororturned it, and were bath throwu uncldr, the .wh'eehr; the <lnc whs on the spot, nntt the other so sevenfly Vaiscd, that little hope-liar. ontigtained a his recortry•